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In 1998, the year my youngest daughter (and mini-me), Tatym, was born (shown below in 2012 photo), I started dabbling with making websites by searching “HTML 101” in Yahoo (this was before Google’s time). I initially made simple websites: one for family pictures, one about my preemie twins, and one for all the good deals I would find. I entitled it “My Shopping Bookmarks” and shared it with family and friends for them to “bookmark” as a favorite website in their browser. When I discovered that I could make money with affiliate marketing by sharing these deals and coupons, it made “work” fun.

 

 

I also started sending out email alerts (when people used to like getting emails) to family and friends about the good deals I would find, who in turn spread the news to their family and friends. Shopping Bookmarks was born and grown to include thousands of bargain shoppers from around the world. I added a section entitled “Kim’s Blog” back in 2003 where I could talk about this and that and everything and that blog eventually spun it off into it’s own domain, ShoppingKim.com (sold to Balagan Media in 2020).

Unfortunately making money by finding coupons and deals became very competitive, and this mom (no pop) shop couldn’t compete with the corporate big wigs. Shopping Bookmarks ended up on the back burner while I focused more on blogging and consulting.

I’ve been an Ebay seller for decades with not much profit, so I was pleasantly surprised when I tested Amazon FBA at how profitable it could be. Since I’m a deal hunter by nature and affiliate marketer by day (and night), I consider my Amazon FBA business to be my “side hustle” as it’s something fun that my boyfriend and I can do together on the weekends.

The entrepreneur in me wanted to find a way to combine my love of deal hunting, my love of affiliate marketing and my love of Amazon FBA. Thus Shopping Bookmarks was revived to share deals for Amazon FBA. But then I expanded to selling products on Walmart. And then friends and family were wanting to know how they too could become a reseller and make money shopping. And other visitors wanted tips on how to make money in the reselling game. Thus I decided to expand the site to include how to source, shop, sell and succeed! 

I plan to be completely transparent about everything as I truly believe that honesty is the best policy.

Honesty is the best policy

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